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Author's Justification
Published in Bernat-N. Tiffon, Atlas of Forensic and Criminal Psychology, 2022
This work neither claims, nor tries, to give lessons on criminal profiling; that is absolutely not the aim of this book since there are other professionals who do excellent work in this field. This is especially true considering that this book is the result of cases that have already been through the prosecution process, and the alleged attacker has already been a person of interest or a defendant and has then been sentenced. For all the cases illustrated in this book, the author of the crime had already been identified at the time; thus, we are not trying to establish any kind of (criminal) profile that the police should investigate to arrest someone in the future.
Understanding Sexual Murder
Published in Louis B. Schlesinger, Sexual Murder, 2021
In the 1970s and 1980s, members of the FBI Behavioral Science Unit developed and refined the technique of criminal profiling (Pinizzotto, 1984; Pinizzotto and Finkel, 1990), discussed further in Chapter 7. They attempted to describe unidentified offenders by analyzing the behavioral significance of these offenders’ conduct at the crime scene. Psychiatrists and psychologists who have extensive backgrounds in behavioral science and criminal psychopathology should surely be able to make a contribution to law enforcement in this regard (McGrath, 2000). Psychological profiling (or behavioral analysis) has been used in cases of sexual murder, other types of sexual offenses, hostage taking, arson, and anonymous letter writing (Douglas et al., 1986). Although profiling techniques have not, for the most part, been statistically validated (Pallone and Hennessey, 1994), recent research has come a long way in demonstrating moderate to strong accuracy rates with the method (Fox and Farrington, 2018). Behavioral analysis has also been considered helpful not only as an investigative tool (Ressler, Burgess, Douglas, and Depue, 1991) but as an aid in threat assessment for patients and disturbed employees (Davis, 2001), as well.
Violence Risk Analysis and Deception
Published in Harold V. Hall, Joseph G. Poirier, Detecting Malingering and Deception, 2020
Harold V. Hall, Joseph G. Poirier
Dynamic predictors and events that change over time and likely affect recidivism should be included in order to recommend intervention. For best accuracy, much like the reformulated criminal profiling presented in Chapter 16, the court should be informed that on-going adjustments in the proffered prediction be made based on new information.
Serial crime as occupation: Parallels between occupational analysis and psychological profiling
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2018
Occupational scientists have engaged in many different ways of studying occupations, including direct observation, understanding the perspectives of the individuals or groups engaging in occupations, and examining established social and cultural understandings of a named occupation. Hocking (2009) suggested that an in-depth understanding of an occupation must encompass the requisite capacities, knowledge and skills, and attitudes associated with participating in it. She further asserted that the temporal aspects of the occupation, including but not limited to how long the activity/action takes, the steps involved including their sequence and repetition, and the pace or tempo of the performance must also be considered. Stated another way, occupations can be studied by deconstructing them, then understood better by being made whole again. Such an understanding can be applied to any and all occupations, including serial crime. In the field of occupational science, this process is referred to as occupational analysis; in the field of law enforcement, a similar process is called psychological or criminal profiling.